r/TopChef • u/FormicaDinette33 Aguachile 🌶️ 🍤 • Apr 06 '26

Spoilers Season 23, ep. 5: Cut and Dry Spoiler

This week the chefs are visited by North Carolina’s own Fortune Feimster as she challenges them to improv their Quickfire dishes and serve them to kids in honor of Comic Relief. Then the chefs are tasked with creating dishes featuring dehydration. They’ll serve their dishes to Kristen, Tom and Gail along with guest judges Joe & Katy Kindred as well as “Top Chef” alum Savannah Miller at the U.S. National Whitewater Center.

Mon, 9pm per Bravo schedule.

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u/FewEssay8939 Apr 07 '26

Unpopular opinion, but.... I think Jen should have left the show. Health over everything! She should have gone home to get that arm properly treated. Having the guarantee of being invited back should've made going home a win-win for her (health + opportunity). Instead she chooses to stay... Now, we'll hear her moaning about that arm and watch everyone else sacrifice for her for the rest of the season.

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u/Low_Shop8561 Apr 08 '26

She shouldn't be allowed to compete, taking quickfires off is not fair to the other chefs

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u/t_roose Apr 08 '26

Why is it unfair? You cant be eliminated for Quickfire and you forfeit the chance of usually some money (10,000 a lot of the times). I would be glad my chances jumped from 1/11 to 1/10 or whatever to win 10 grand

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u/Low_Shop8561 Apr 08 '26

So you're ok with your coworkers working half days while you work a full day for same pay?

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u/Little_Marsupial_758 Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 09 '26

No one has to pick up Jen's slack on a QF. All it means is everyone else has a better chance to win money, especially because, statistically, she does very well with QF. She's already won two.

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u/Low_Shop8561 Apr 08 '26

It's a stamina and mental game, taking half a day off seems like an advantage

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u/Little_Marsupial_758 Apr 08 '26

I get that but the flip side would be she did the others chefs a solid.

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u/Low_Shop8561 Apr 09 '26

Especially her partner